My Monticello: Fiction

My Monticello: FictionA badass debut by any measurenimble, knowing, and electrifying. Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Nickel Boys and Harlem Shuffle "'My Monticello' is, quite simply, an extraordinary debut from a gifted writer with an unflinching view of history and what may come of it." The Washington Post Winner of the Weatherford Award in Fiction A winner of 2022 Lillian Smith Book Awards A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally

16 years after its inception

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He's adept at applying it to orchestrate the murders and demise of his foes by using their own deadly shooters against each other

While recognizing the role of external influences

Winner of the PEN Open Book Award * Winner of the Whiting Award * Longlisted for the National Book Award and Aspen Words Literary Prize * Nominated for the PEN/Robert W

Langston Hughes was hailed as the poet laureate of black America

co-creator

The Third Coalition’s defeat led to the dissolution of the Habsburg Empire

Hanif Abdurraqib has written a profound and lasting reflection on how Black performance is inextricably woven into the fabric of American culture

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Although the histories of blacks in America and in Great Britain are fundamentally different

The brutal suppression of the uprising in Morant Bay in October 1865 under Governor Edward Eyre and the ensuing 'reign of terror' is a watershed in Jamaican history